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Are tanks aging like the cavalry in WW1?

Are tanks aging like the cavalry in WW1?
France 24 Sunday 12 July 2026, 17:33 UTC By Gavin LEE 1 min read
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Are tanks aging like the cavalry in WW1? To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Issued on: Modified: The rapid pace of technological advances in drone warfare, guided by artificial intelligence in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, has fundamentally changed the face of conflict. There is a question about how radical that change is: an evolution or a revolution in warfare? And it's causing all sorts of headaches for governments worldwide, particularly in Europe, as they make choices about what to invest in over the immediate future. The multi-award-winning Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov has been investigating the question of how radical the transformation is becoming, and whether investing billions in tanks, planes, and warships for the battlefield is going to become the equivalent of buying horses and arrows on the eve of machine guns and howitzers, in his latest piece for the WSJ.
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